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Bluffdale, Utah

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84065. The Survey maps it on the Jordan Narrows quadrangle. 17,014 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,436 feet above sea level.

Bluffdale within Salt Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Bluffdale grew from 7,598 to 17,014 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20107,598
202017,014+9,416 (+124%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Bluffdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,404 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorthwest AreaWOOD
14 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBIGELOW
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPRESERVE
5 August 2012Natural5,766 acresSalt Lake Field OfficePINYON
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeEAGLE CREST
29 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSPRINGVIEW ASSIST
21 August 2016Arson/incendiarism9.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMINUTEMAN
21 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLUCKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Bluffdale: 17 past producers, 15 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Limestone, General, Manganese, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crystal Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Dry Hollow ProspectsIronOccurrenceHematite
Evans Limestone QuarryLimestone, General, ManganesePast Producer1914
Evans Lime QuarryManganeseProducer
Evans Lime QuarryManganesePast Producer1930
Bluffdale Sw Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Jordan Narrows Gravel Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Jordon Narrows Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maple Hollow Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Olivers Siding Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer1982

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bluffdale in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Flash FloodBluffdale$45,000Rainfall of 1.1 inches in 30 minutes inundated storm drains and resulted in numerous reports of basement flooding.

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Olivers0.9 miles22
Riverton2.2 miles24
Nash2.6 miles22
Riverton Siding3.1 miles24
Draper4.7 miles25
Crescent5.0 miles24
South Jordan5.0 miles24
Lampton5.2 miles24

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BluffdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482962The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1425844. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.